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FCC pushes carriers to implement caller ID authentication by 2019
Even if you don't agree with Ajit Pai's stance on some important issues, you might still want to hear about his latest campaign against robocalls. The FCC chairman has demanded (PDF) the adoption of a robust call authentication system to prevent caller ID spoofing, telling American carriers to implement the technology no later than 2019. Pai has sent letters to the CEOs of 14 voice providers to ask them to conjure up concrete plans to adopt the SHAKEN/STIR framework, which would validate legitimate calls across networks before they reach recipients.
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This is encouraging news. I don't trust Ajit Pai under normal circumstances, but I do feel that at least this decision is something which is in consumer's interests. I'd love to get less robo-calls.
I also learned a lot from reading this article and the related link: all the numbers I have blocked on my phone were probably just spoofed numbers and not the originating number. [crying] So that's probably why robo-calls keep coming: they can just spoof more and more different numbers even if you block some of them. So yeah, I'd love to see Ajit Pai's plan put into action.